This interesting opportunity has come about via some nice serendipity. I do the occasional slot of engineering for Airtight Studios and they asked me to cover a vocal recording session for King of the Slums. The session went well and Charlie, the vocalist asked me about my own music. Then he invited me to support the somewhat legendary Manchester music outfit at their upcoming show at the Academy. It’s a crazy wonderful!

I hereby offer you a podcast I recently made international network and database FEMALE PRESSURE.

It covers a small selection of electronic music pioneers past and present, personal and universal.
From Delia Derbyshire, Susanne Ciani, Wendy Carlos to bjork, Electric Indigo and music from a few other members of female:pressure.

It’s not that often that I gig on my home turf these days. Not that often I gig at all compared to my early years. It actually takes a lot of energy to prepare for and recover from the lottery of a live performance – so many factors have to come together to make for a magic experience for all.

So, it’s a treat to offer two sides of my electronic music output in Manchester coming up in December. Do come along if you can!

Solstice Social with RISE! – FRI DEC 7 2018

Lovely grand piano for this occasion and the Open Voice choir will sing my “Crazy Wonderful” song.

Test Card is a network and platform in Manchester dedicated to experiments with and between the audio and visual. For their third birthday bash, I will play my new live electronica set – using only an Ableton Push Controller and 2 microphones – with my frequent digital visual collaborator Andrea Pazos on VJ-ing skills.

First stop is my old home BERLIN on FRI 9 NOV – I’m excited to be playing at the female:pressure 20th birthday party with my new raw electronica live set using only an Ableton Push controller and 2 microphones. One for the haunches as well as the head and heart and a stomping line up of talented electronic music makers/DJs/VJs.

Then I’ll be in BELFAST on WED 14 NOV at the lovely Oh Yeah Music Centre, delivering a talk and workshops about Delia Derbyshire as part of my work for Delia Derbyshire Day.

Next stop will be ABERDEEN for the Rise up Quines! festival. On THURS 15 NOV I will deliver an introduction to electronic music production workshop for female folk and on FRI 16 NOV I will do my first “masterclass” after a live performance of my piano based tracks. The idea is to allow you to get under the hood of how I blend (or juxtapose) electronic and acoustic (voice, piano, found sounds) elements live.

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Thanks to Anti-Type Films for this interview about how I got into the wonderful sphere of (electronic) music, why I do it, teaching electronic music and my work with electronic music charity, Delia Derbyshire Day.

Check out the Deliaphonic youtube channel for more interviews and their 57 minute film about their Deliaphonic initiative with Delia Derbyshire Day also featured!

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After an amazing week working with teenage lasses in the North East (see previous post: Making Waves Hexagon Experiment electronic music summer school as part of Great Exhibition North), I now return to Newcastle for another marvellous opportunity as composer/sound designer for a new dance theatre production by Company of Others.

We are developing the show this week which explores testimonies by women based in the North of England about endings. These often silenced stories will then be honoured and amplified through dance with sound design/music by yours truly. The show will tour in Spring 2019.

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I’m excited to be returning to my musical nest, Newcastle-upon-Tyne this summer to work with fellow Manchester based artists and audio nerds Afrodeutsche, Mandy Wigby and Vicky Clarke.

We’ll be working with a group of young lasses making electronic music and soundscapes using our varied tools and techniques. We will then perform a “something” on the Friday as part of the Hexagon Experiment series of events.

Welcome to the online listening version of “Lawr I’r Mor/DownToTheSea” – A dance and music performance commissioned as part of Castell 03 Arts Festival in Caernarfon, North Wales in June 2018.

This is not the performance version (the performance version has a minute of silence at one point in the journey).

This electronic music and sound design piece is intended for headphones.

The dance and sound journey begins in the upper courtyard and moves down the castle via the Great Hall and the Queen’s Tower, through the Queen’s gate (not usually for public access), down to the jetty outside the Anglesey Arms pub and then along the promenade to the quote inscribed on slate “Yma wyf finna i fod”/“I am where I am supposed to be”.

This commission was such a joy to work on. After doing this and another music for dance commission earlier this year, I now know I love making music/sound for dance/movement which I had suspected I would. It was great to work with creative folk living in North Wales as I am getting to know the mountains and natural elements already and this people based connection is so enriching.

I am very excited and grateful for another wonderful creative opportunity – a sound/music commission collaborating with dancer Rosalind Holgate-Smith to take place at Caernarfon Castle in North Wales.

‘Lawr i’r Mor/Down to the Sea’ is an intimate and dreamlike promenade performance that transports audiences from the castle down to the sea. Two dancers embody the sea whilst also responding to the environment, the castle and the historic town of Caernarfon.

The performance will be presented as part of Castell 03, an arts festival based in Caernarfon Castle, with the thematic focus ‘I’r Mor/To the Sea’ to coincide with Cymru Wales 2018 Year of the Sea.

It has been most interesting to get to know this town and some of its people with an estimated 85-95% Welsh speaking population. So I even get to learn a new language (language nerd alert). I have interviewed two artists (Manon Awst and Bethany Celyn) who chose to move to or return to Caernarfon and a 95 year old fisherman who knows the sea so well. Their voices will be integrated into the atmospheric electronic music based soundtrack I am creating designed for headphones.

Found sounds for this project are water based such as the nice clinking of a metal water bottle (while getting that whoop sound by swilling the water in the bottle) and a giant water bottle drum.

The piece and its music is particularly inspired by the quote “Yma wyf finna i fod”/“I am where I am supposed to be”, which can be found inscribed in slate on Caernarfon promenade. The dancers’ and audience’s journey from the castle will conclude here. I understand the quote comes from a poem by Meirion Macintyre Hughes. There is also a song inspired by “Yma wyf finna i fod” by Geraint Lovgreen, which has in turn inspired my new work.

Two FREE performances of ‘Lawr i’r Mor/Down to the Sea’ will take place on SAT 23 JUNE at 2 & 4pm as part of the ‘Art Tour’ designed by lead artist Manon Awst. For more info and to book your ticket please visit our Eventbrite page.

I’m rather excited that my next live performance will be at the mighty Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK. It’s always a joy when they let me into such places with my wayward brand of electronic music.

As part of their “A Little Bite Music” lunchtime concert series, I will play on Friday 18 May, 12.45pm-1.30pm.

I will have a lovely grand piano and accompaniment from my loyal violinist Kate Moran. I will play tracks from my latest album Everything Gives to Something Else plus a new one called “Little Song” (apparently the meaning of my full name Caroline) which is a non-romantic love song.